It captivated the attention of the entire nation, seizing the curiosity of the Roman populace, respectable ladies from the upper classes, famed painters and writers, including the poet Giosue Carducci.

Although earlier poets like Carducci dung to the traditionally sonorous, elegant language of their literary forbears, later ones, like Saba and Montale, reacted with poems written in a new language that was pointedly earthier and even intentionally harsh.

VISITORS to last summer's late-lamented Brinkburn Music Festival in Northumberland will remember the Carducci Quartet for a top notch performance which they linked to a masterclass for North East music students.

Thus the 17th Brinkburn Music Festival opened with tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Roger Vignoles who were followed, next evening, by the Carducci Quartet and oboist Nicholas Daniel, the latter joining Padmore and Vignoles for the third day.

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